The End of Everything

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About The End of Everything

Review Praise for Megan Abbott: ''Word for word, pound for pound, Megan Abbott delivers more than any writer I know. . . She is simply one of the most exciting and original voices of her generation.'' -- Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author ''Abbott turns the stuff of sensational confession magazines into a rich meditation on the unclouded depths of the soul.'' --New York Magazine Product Description From Edgar Award winner Megan Abbott comes a thrilling work of psychological fiction. Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hood and her next-door neighbor, Evie Verver, are inseparable, best friends who swap clothes, bathing suits, and field-hockey sticks and between whom -- presumably -- there are no secrets. Then one afternoon, Evie disappears, and as a rabid, giddy panic spreads through the balmy suburban community, everyone turns to Lizzie for answers. Was Evie unhappy, troubled, or upset? Had she mentioned being followed? Would she have gotten into the car of a stranger? Compelled by curiosity, Lizzie takes up her own furtive pursuit of the truth. Haunted by dreams of her lost friend and titillated by her own new power as the center of the disappearance, Lizzie uncovers secret after secret and begins to wonder if she knew anything at all about her best friend. About the Author MEGAN ABBOTT has taught literature, writing, and film at New York University and the State University of New York at Oswego. In 2002, Palgrave Macmillan published her nonfiction study, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. She is also the author of the Edgar Award -winning Queenpin.

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